Quotes About Respectable

Nagin is a decent man

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way contradicting yourself.

one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.

The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Why not, Sire?" He struggled for a moment, then growled, "Because Ã¢â'¬Â¦ because it's not respectable, that's why. What bard would compose an epic about our deeds and write about lace?

Good organization," said Magnus. "I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family." Alec made an ugly sound in the back of his throat. "Did you sleep with him, too?" Magnus's cat eyes widened. "Alexander!

We socialists, anarchists, hoboes, chicken thieves, outlaws and undesirable citizens of the U>S> are with you heart and soul. You will notice that we are not respectable. Neither are you. No revolutionary can possibly be respectable in these days of the reign of property....I for one wish there were more outlaws of the sort that formed the gallant band that took Mexicali.

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

I am immensely respectable. All the young ladies in the office acknowledge my entrance. I can dine where I like now, and without vanity may suppose that I shall soon acquire a house in Surrey, two cars, a conservatory and some rare species of melon.

Paul: "If any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, uncontentious, free from the love of money" (1 Timothy 3:1–3).

Symbolism, to Carnaday, was superstitious nonsense. Psychiatry, though, was worse. It was the purest sort of buncombe, hardly as respectable as spiritualism.

Why look'e, young gentleman," said Toby, "when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means has a snug house over his head with nobody a-prying and smelling about it, it's rather a starling thing to have the honour of a wisit from a young gentleman (however respectable and pleasant a person he may be to play cards with at conweniency) circumstanced as you are.

Military hospitals had reported that some anaesthetics had made patients speak while under their influence. This had led to a number of attempts to use cannabis as a truth drug. The point Dulles made was that now cannabis was widely regarded as respectable, and that in time the pioneer work of Dr. Cameron would be similarly looked upon," Buckley told the author.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy - alas, America!

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.